In the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 1939, German secret agents do seem to be Polish terrorists seized the Gleiwitz radio station in the region of Silesia Poland/German border.
Music station program came to a stop abruptly, followed by frantic German voice announcing the Polish formations were walking towards the town; Germany was invaded by the Poland!
Then, like a bad imitation of war infamous year emission world, transmission went dead since a moment of dramatic silence.
Speak of Gleiwitz reaches the rest of the world
Soon, waves sticks and sizzles in life yet again and this time Polish voice (intelligent little devils, German...) called for all Poles in the area of dissemination to take up arms and attack Germany.
At any time, great radio stations Europe took history .the BBC broadcast this statement:
Reported an attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz, which is fair to the Polish border in Silesia .the ' German news agency reported that the attack came at approximately 20: 00 tonight when Poland entered the studio and started to broadcast a statement in Polish.In the quarter of an hour, according to reports, poles were controlled by the German police, who opened fire on the Polish eux.Plusieurs allegedly killed summers, but figures are not yet known.
And thus, Hitler invented an excuse to invade the Poland, which he did the next day: September 1, 1939. The day started the war.
Alfred Naujocks: The man who started the war
Alfred Helmut Naujocks was a difficult go - to man b.c intellectual ' is Naujocks received order of Heinrich Müller, Chief of the Gestapo to terrorist attack staged at the station in Gleiwitz.
Provision of the Naujock were that the Germans had baptized "goods, maintains" who were dissenters and criminals kept alive in the detention camps until the Gestapo needed a corpse chaud.Pour add validity to Gleiwitz attack, the Naujocks brought on such cans well: Franciszek Honiok.
Honiok, a German region of Silesia, was a Polish sympathizer connu.Avant arriving at the station, the Gestapo gave him a lethal injection.Then they he dressed up as a Polish terrorist and brought to the front of the radio station.Naujocks later testified that the man was unconscious, but not dead yet, when he was shot full of pistol rounds.When the police and the press corps Honiok, they assumed that it has been one of the fictional Polish terrorists who attacked the station.
Operation Himmler
In all, there are 21 actions to fake the border that same night, many of them to "canned" German prisons terror so there would be many organ morning - evidence of Polish attackers who had been shot in legitimate défense.Les shares were all part of a larger plan, called operation Himmler.
The next day, after a long filled night of terror false, Hitler gave a speech to the German army full synthetic anger:
Polish State has refused the peaceful settlement of relations that I want and launched a call to arms.Poland Germans are persecuted with bloody terror and driven from their homes.A series of violations of the border, intolerable to a great power, prove that the Poland are more willing to respect the border of the Reich.
To put an end to this madness, I have no other choice than to meet force with force now.German army fight the battle for the honour and the fundamental rights of the Germany reborn with hard determination YH ' expect that every soldier, conscious of the great traditions of eternal German soldiers will remain always aware that it is a representative of the great national-socialiste .Vivent our people and our Reich Germany!
Therefore, the citizens of the Germany believes it's faults the Poland all les.Avec the benefit of hindsight, we should learn how the war started under the premise of the defence of the patrie.Et we should learn how a psychopath appears as a savior to the dupes that it claims to be protéger.Et we must pay attention to the lessons too - often repeated history...
Where are they now more?
Not been for the Nuremberg trials in 1945, the real story behind the Gleiwitz attack could have never been discovered .c ' is available as leader of the operation, Alfred Naujocks, spilled the beans in a written affidavit.
After that fateful tonight, Naujocks had several years of adventures with the Nazis.puis deserted Germany and himself to Allied 1944.Il was detained as a criminal war, until the war was terminée.Après having testified of the Nuremberg trials, it became a businessman in Hamburg and perhaps helped some Nazis, South American escape on the côté.Il died in 1966.
In Gleiwitz radio station, it still has a 38-story tower nicknamed the Eiffel Tower in Bavaria, which is the highest Tower in wood in the monde.En 2004, the station became home to the Museum on the history of radio and the Visual arts.
Copyright?2007 Joe Crubaugh
Joe Crubaugh is a freelance writer whose psyche is often absorbed with the news, politics, art, culture, society and creamy bitterness a smoky Mocha chocolate blanc.Il Cup is the author of numerous personal emails and on most days he blogs at wish hard-boiled worldwide .Lorsqu ' it is not written, Joe spent weekday masquerading consulting software in a State of South-East of the United States undisclosed.
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